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Ionde
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Memories of youth?
I found an almost full bottle of this perfume while preparing to move into another house, it is a backup bottle I was given because I wore this pretty consistently 11-12 years ago. Ravel was an interesting house. Most of its creations are lost to the annals of time though. I eventually decided to use it again and see whether it's similar to what I remember. I don't want to elaborate a lot because It smells different than I remember, probably due to Its age - the juice yellowed out from cyan-like a lot of older perfumes do and it has this ghastly rubbing alcohol smell at first spray. Back then I over-sprayed until content and I stopped wearing it because I started to hate it and have forever associated it with those blunder years.
Notes:
After the pungent start, it follows with a strong floral note accompanied by marine notes.
Then it progresses to a strong floral-vanilla scent that might or might not be affected by age.
It settles after 45 minutes or so towards the synthetic floral-aquatic smell I remember.
Durability:
Back then I clearly remember the scent lingering around me for hours, considering the over-spraying I believe it was pretty average durability. The performance in this bottle now is non-existent, it goes away in less than 2 hours.
